multi lingual banners

[Ant]

Hi,
Is this possible to set up banners that will only display in a certain language. Fro instance I have my site in Anglish and French, I want to display the banner in French for french and in english for other nationalities.

Can we do it?

How can I have several banners running in parallele.

Cordialement,
/rs, A

[Ajeh]

You could build multiple banner groups and then where each banner group appears have it utilize a different group based on language ...

Right now, it pulls based only on the banner group name ...

With a bit of thought you could have the banner sidebox that uses:
SHOW_BANNERS_GROUP_SET7

Actually utilize an more customized method such as:

    $banner_box_group= SHOW_BANNERS_GROUP_SET7 . $_SESSION['languages_id']; 

This would alter the name of the banner group based on the language so if you had a group called:
fred1 for english
fred2 for french
etc. etc.

depending on how your languages are setup, you could build language oriented banners ...

[27gerd27]

Hi,
i made your changes in the php-file, but what i have to do with fred1, fred2?
Could you be so kind and give me any hint?

Thank you very match

Gerd

[Ajeh]

If you were to enter in the Configuration ... Layout Settings ... the word:
fred

for the setting on:

Banner Display Groups - Side Box banner_box
The Banner Display Groups can be from 1 Banner Group or Multiple Banner Groups

For Multiple Banner Groups enter the Banner Group Name separated by a colon :

Example: Wide-Banners:SideBox-Banners
Default Group is SideBox-Banners

What Banner Group(s) do you want to use in the Side Box - banner_box?
Leave blank for none

This should produce fred1 fred2 fred3 etc. for the languages ...

[27gerd27]

Hi Ajeh,

i wrote this:

$banner_box_group= SHOW_BANNERS_GROUP_SET7 . $_SESSION['languages_id'];

to the /httpdocs/includes/modules/sideboxes/banner_box.php

I leave this in the Layout Settings unchanged:
Banner Display Groups - Side Box banner_box SideBox-Banners

(I understood this will produce fred1, fred2 etc.)

What a name for the banner group now i have to use in the Banner Manager ?

just fred1 or fred2 or
SideBox-Banners-fred1 etc.

After i changed the php-file the the banner disapeares

I am sure it is easy, but...

Could you one nore try to help http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/images/smilies/mellow.gif


many thanks

Gerd

[27gerd27]

Hi Ajeh,

could you be so kind and give me a bit more information?

Thank you very much...

Gerd

[wisehoot]

Hi,
i made your changes in the php-file, but what i have to do with fred1, fred2?
Could you be so kind and give me any hint?

Thank you very match

Gerd

See post #48 in this thread, I think I found an easier method to display multilingual banners.

Good luck!

[gjh42]

That will work fine for two languages, but not for more.
Balihr's directions in post 22 are the correct answer, if followed exactly. I reproduce them here, with red highlighting on the points that people seem to be missing:

I wanted my header's Wide-Banners to be multi-lingual.

So, for all those still looking for the answer, here we go:

1. Locate your tpl_header.php file and find this line:

if (SHOW_BANNERS_GROUP_SET2 != '' && $banner = zen_banner_exists('dynamic', SHOW_BANNERS_GROUP_SET2))

and replace it with

if (SHOW_BANNERS_GROUP_SET2 != '' && $banner = zen_banner_exists('dynamic', SHOW_BANNERS_GROUP_SET2 . $_SESSION['languages_id']))

2. Go to Configuration->Layout Settings and change Banner Display Groups - Header Position 2 to show Wide-Banners (write that in the field)

3. Go to Tools->Banner Manager. Edit your banner for your first language and manually assign it to banner group Wide-Banners1. Edit your banner for your second language and manually assign it to banner group Wide-Banners2. Notice the number 1 - this number represents your language id. Therefore, if you have english (1), german (2) etc, Wide-Banners1 will show when english language is selected and Wide-Banners2 when german is selected. Note: language ids are related to your installed languages, not a general code - if you don't know what id you want to use, simply try different numbers 1,2,3,4,5...

And that's it! If you want to use it on a different position, change the GROUP_SET number accordingly.

Could it be any easier?

This also works with Flash banners (if you previously set up Flash to run). If you want a Flash banner, use the HTML banner version...

All thanks go to Ajeh!
(end of balihr's instructions)

[hubert123]

thanks!
on my site it works fine for one banner!
but i have three!

Banner Display Groups - Header Position 1 banner-1
Banner Display Groups - Header Position 2 banner-2
Banner Display Groups - Header Position 3 Wide-Banners (now called)

so i have tested out different ways, but with no success.

when i am doing the same steps with the other banners they are mixed.

any suggestions?
thanks.

[enzo-ita]

That will work fine for two languages, but not for more.
Balihr's directions in post 22 are the correct answer, if followed exactly. I reproduce them here, with red highlighting on the points that people seem to be missing:
All thanks go to Ajeh!
(end of balihr's instructions)

Hi I am looking for having multilingual banner in the side boxes.
Therefore coupling the above concept I mod the tpl_banner_box_all.php and set the layout to show in side banner box all, the group bannersAll.

$banner_cnt = 0;
  while (!$banners_all->EOF) {
    $banner_cnt++;
    $banner = zen_banner_exists('dynamic', SHOW_BANNERS_GROUP_SET_ALL . $_SESSION['languages_id']);
    $content .= zen_display_banner('static', $banners_all->fields['banners_id'] . $_SESSION['languages_id']);

I found in the db the languages id of my languages that are 2 for italian and 4 for english. I then assigned the localized banners to bannersAll2 and bannersAll4 but, unfortunately the result is no banners shown!
I am stuck now, because my knowledge is limited.
Can someone help?
Thanks
Enzo